History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . stion. At an informalmeeting of the New York delegation on April 29,Whitelaw Reid, who represented Greeley, proposed aresolution that said: Finding ourselves not fullyagreed with respect to free trade as opposed to protec-tion, we respectfully recommend the grave issuesinvolved in that controversy to a careful and unbiasedadjudication of the people, urging them to choosemembers of Congress who will truly embody and willfaithfully reflect their will on the subject.^ Even ifGreeley were not to be the candidate, his support wasfelt t
History of the state of New York, political and governmental; . stion. At an informalmeeting of the New York delegation on April 29,Whitelaw Reid, who represented Greeley, proposed aresolution that said: Finding ourselves not fullyagreed with respect to free trade as opposed to protec-tion, we respectfully recommend the grave issuesinvolved in that controversy to a careful and unbiasedadjudication of the people, urging them to choosemembers of Congress who will truly embody and willfaithfully reflect their will on the subject.^ Even ifGreeley were not to be the candidate, his support wasfelt to be essential and a tariflf plank was finally agreedto along the lines of this suggestion, which declared:We remit the discussion of the subject to the peoplein their Congressional districts and to the decision of 2New York Evening Post, May 2, 1872; McClure, Our Presidents and HowWe Make Them, p. 230; Watterson, The Humor and Tragedy of the GreeleyCampaign, Century, November, 1912; statement of D. D. S. Brown to thewriter. 3New York Tribune, April 30, William Dorsheimer William Dorsheimer; born in Lyons, Wayne county, N. Y.,February 5, 1832; attended Phillips academy, Andover, Harvard college; studied law and was admitted to thebar; practiced in New York City; appointed major in theunion army in August, 1861; appointed United States attorneyto the northern district of New York, March 28. 1867; waslieutenant governor under Samuel J. Tilden in 1875-1876 andunder Lucius Robinson in 1877-1878; was elected as a demo-crat to the forty-eighth congress and served March 4, 1883to March 3, 1885; died at Savannah, Ga., March 26, li
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